CVE-2026-107219

Excelize: Unbounded spinCount in agile decryption burns CPU during OpenFile

Published Oct 7, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Excelize is a Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. From 2.3.1 to 2.11.0, agile decryption accepts an attacker-controlled spinCount and performs that many password-key derivation iterations before verifier validation. OpenFile reaches agileDecrypt, which passes the unbounded spinCount to convertPasswdToKey before password verification. When a crafted OLE encrypted-workbook header supplies an excessive spinCount and the file is opened, the key-derivation loop performs unbounded attacker-selected work and cannot be cancelled, allowing an attacker to consume a CPU core for an attacker-controlled duration. No fixed version is available as of this review.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-jrfj-fhj2-jjvm Excelize: Unbounded spinCount in agile decryption burns CPU during OpenFile
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Excelize
Excelize excelize
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:excelize:excelize:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*
Vendors & Products Excelize
Excelize excelize
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Qax-os
Qax-os excelize
Vendors & Products Qax-os
Qax-os excelize
Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Excelize is a Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. From 2.3.1 to 2.11.0, agile decryption accepts an attacker-controlled spinCount and performs that many password-key derivation iterations before verifier validation. OpenFile reaches agileDecrypt, which passes the unbounded spinCount to convertPasswdToKey before password verification. When a crafted OLE encrypted-workbook header supplies an excessive spinCount and the file is opened, the key-derivation loop performs unbounded attacker-selected work and cannot be cancelled, allowing an attacker to consume a CPU core for an attacker-controlled duration. No fixed version is available as of this review.
Title Excelize: Unbounded spinCount in agile decryption burns CPU during OpenFile
Weaknesses CWE-400
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Oct 7, 2026, 7:45 PM
Reserved
Oct 7, 2026, 2:34 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Oct 7, 2026, 7:17 PM
Modified
Oct 13, 2026, 2:23 PM